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A lot of people were bothered when media started being shown that isn’t part of a users shared server when somebody searches for it, but that never bothered me - if somebody searches for something my server doesn’t have, and Plex wants to give them a link to Netflix or a paid stream, showing somebody where to watch it is convenient. The minute they prioritize their results over my media is probably when I’d switch. Corb3t fucked around with this message at 03:51 on Jan 19, 2024 |
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Joke is on you plex. I use infuse w/ plex so I never see the plex app UI. Unless something heinous happens, I will keep on trucking. Ain't teaching my moms something new.
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Jan 19, 2024 04:16
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Yeah I recently switched to Infuse as well after people in here talked about it and it's pretty great.
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Jan 19, 2024 04:52
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if i'm taking a flight soon and I have subtitle files up on my server along with the video, how can I ensure I download the subtitles along with the movie for offline viewing? on the ipad client if that makes a difference also should i be using infuse to get around these stupid paid features of the plex UI, like streaming / downloading on the iOS client? can it connect to a hosted plex server? teen phone cutie fucked around with this message at 07:09 on Jan 19, 2024 |
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Jan 19, 2024 07:04
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Bonzo posted:It was me. I finally, after 8 years of use, bought a lifetime pass on Black Friday so of course now they poo poo the bed.  
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Jan 19, 2024 07:14
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Does Jellyfin let me manually match single episodes which PLEX doesn’t and often drives me insane in weird edge cases? That alone might make me switch.
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Jan 19, 2024 07:23
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teagone posted:For like the last few years there's always been something added to Plex that seems to put everyone in a state of doom and gloom, but so far none of those "features" have done anything egregious enough to make me abandon the platform. Maybe it'll happen eventually, but I'm again apathetic to this recent bit of news. This. I appreciate the emby/jellyfin updates folks do in here to keep us updated for when Plex someday enshittifies itself but for now its still working as well as it normally has been.
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Jan 19, 2024 12:26
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Yeah all the new things have made it slightly worse, but still not bad enough to jump ship. They have also added some great new features like intro skip in the same time frame so it’s evened out somewhat. I just really wish we could fork Plex as it exists right now (minus discover). It’s basically as good as I’ll ever need right now and if it stayed this way it’d be great.
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Jan 19, 2024 18:31
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The only thing that has annoyed me on Plex is the change from orange corner unwatched -> green check watched. I like the orange corner way!!
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Jan 19, 2024 18:36
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Corb3t posted:The minute they prioritize their results over my media is probably when I’d switch. I guess the concerning thing about this latest announcement is that Plex now has a financial incentive to do exactly this. We'll see!
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Jan 19, 2024 18:43
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While I agree that the rollout of the streaming platform stuff hasn't really changed too much, I have felt like there's been some dark design going on with the UI and I'm worried that this will just increase with the usual enshittification. I've definitely had people ask me why my movies had ads in them and almost every time it's because an update reset their home UI so that Plex's own "Movies & TV" tab is now at the top of the sources list instead of my libraries and I have to try and walk them through how to unpin it or re-order it. Hard to believe stuff like that wouldn't increase in the future as they look to drive traffic to their streaming service. This does remind me though that I really should rename my server from "HTPC" to something that makes it more clear that it's specifically my server.
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Jan 19, 2024 18:53
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I use my server name at the beginning of every library name to avoid that exact problem. Junipero-Movies Junipero-TV etc
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Jan 19, 2024 19:07
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Scruff McGruff posted:While I agree that the rollout of the streaming platform stuff hasn't really changed too much, I have felt like there's been some dark design going on with the UI and I'm worried that this will just increase with the usual enshittification. I've definitely had people ask me why my movies had ads in them and almost every time it's because an update reset their home UI so that Plex's own "Movies & TV" tab is now at the top of the sources list instead of my libraries and I have to try and walk them through how to unpin it or re-order it. Hard to believe stuff like that wouldn't increase in the future as they look to drive traffic to their streaming service. derkflix is my servers name haha
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Jan 19, 2024 19:09
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kri kri posted:Joke is on you plex. I use infuse w/ plex so I never see the plex app UI. Unless something heinous happens, I will keep on trucking. Ain't teaching my moms something new. Hahaha jokes on you Plex! I only have to wait 20 days until I start seeing movies in infuse after it transcodes! EVIL Gibson fucked around with this message at 19:17 on Jan 19, 2024 |
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Scruff McGruff posted:While I agree that the rollout of the streaming platform stuff hasn't really changed too much, I have felt like there's been some dark design going on with the UI and I'm worried that this will just increase with the usual enshittification. I've definitely had people ask me why my movies had ads in them and almost every time it's because an update reset their home UI so that Plex's own "Movies & TV" tab is now at the top of the sources list instead of my libraries and I have to try and walk them through how to unpin it or re-order it. Hard to believe stuff like that wouldn't increase in the future as they look to drive traffic to their streaming service. I’ve had people ask the same regarding ads. When you search for a title it says either “on Plex” or “Bloopsy Server Name.” I’ve had a a couple people confused thinking if it’s “On Plex” that means it’s one of mine. I just made sure to hammer home to everyone to only select stuff from “Bloopsy Server Name” and to never select otherwise that is unless they want to self-flagellate with ads. It’s annoying that Plex mixes their crap in with mine in search but as long as the source is clearly identified then it should be okay imo.
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Jan 19, 2024 19:25
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I can't imagine a scenario where Plex doesn't eventually remove the ability to play local media, I wouldn't be surprised if that was a condition of getting access to media company catalogs. Plex is a major part of media piracy, media companies would love to remove Plex. I just don't think it's next month because Plex also wants to keep user engagement but I think it will happen. I'm hoping Jellyfin catches up to Plex.
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Jan 19, 2024 19:29
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gariig posted:I'm hoping Jellyfin catches up to Plex. I tossed a few bucks at the Jellyfin folks a couple months ago. Maybe I'll do that again.
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Jan 19, 2024 19:51
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I use Plex in my own house, from my computer to our TV through our LAN. Are these changes affecting me? I don't think I've updated Plex in a few months, so I should just continue not updating?
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Jan 19, 2024 19:55
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Plexamp has me locked in for life
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Jan 19, 2024 22:12
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Plexamp is dope but deemix finally stopped working so I gotta get more familiar with band camp
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Jan 19, 2024 22:40
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hitze posted:Plexamp has me locked in for life Plexamp + multiple family members that are in their 70s and 80s have me ride or die for Plex too.
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Fozzy The Bear posted:Are these changes affecting me? No, we're just wringing our hands at this point, because we don't have anything better to do. Fozzy The Bear posted:I don't think I've updated Plex in a few months, so I should just continue not updating? Do you like malware? If so, keep skipping updates.
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gariig posted:I can't imagine a scenario where Plex doesn't eventually remove the ability to play local media, I wouldn't be surprised if that was a condition of getting access to media company catalogs. Plex is a major part of media piracy, media companies would love to remove Plex. I just don't think it's next month because Plex also wants to keep user engagement but I think it will happen. I'm hoping Jellyfin catches up to Plex. They''d like just make it abandon ware by not adding features of fixing bugs. If they are doing anything about piracy it will be the resellers.
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Fozzy The Bear posted:I use Plex in my own house, from my computer to our TV through our LAN. We found the LastPass employee responsible for the breach.
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Fozzy The Bear posted:I use Plex in my own house, from my computer to our TV through our LAN. As a counter argument, I have updated my Plex and my system and clients are still great.
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EVIL Gibson posted:As a counter argument, I have updated my Plex and my system and clients are still great. My container auto updates  Can’t remember the last issue I had with a server release
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Same. Haven't noticed any front end changes much. I just have to tell new users to only select my libraries and disable/hide everything else unless they want the Jerry Springer 24x7 channel.
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What kind of user numbers do y'all have? I have 28 friends/family with access, but like 8 who access it every month. I'm using the Plex proxy and have everything else related behind tail scale.
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About the same, maybe 4-6 active users in any given month.
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13 active of 25 in the last week.
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Well Played Mauer posted:Plexamp is dope but deemix finally stopped working so I gotta get more familiar with band camp Still chugging along for me, though I found I can't queue multiple downloads or I get locked out of the website for a while. Grabbing one thing at a time still seems to work fine. cruft posted:No, we're just wringing our hands at this point, because we don't have anything better to do. I'm trapped on an old version because newer releases force i965 and that gives me light banding on transcodes 
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If you don't have your plex open to the internet then fine but if you do you should deal with fixing the light banding and stay up to date. I know this is fun hobby stuff but poo poo can get very real very quick if you get breached.
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I have like 4 people i share plex with and only one of those consistently uses mine. I also have Plex library shares from one goon I know and my brother in law
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That Works posted:I have like 4 people i share plex with and only one of those consistently uses mine. I also have Plex library shares from one goon I know and my brother in law Do you have a port forwarded? If so you need to stay current. It's not those 4 users you need to worry about.
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Matt Zerella posted:Do you have a port forwarded? If so you need to stay current. It's not those 4 users you need to worry about. Yes but im not advocating for version freezes itt either, mines current.
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Yeah as much as I joked about just never updating, that's probably a bad idea.
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That Works posted:Yes but im not advocating for version freezes itt either, mines current. Whoops, sorry I'm jet lagged!
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I have probably 30 users, and other than my immediate family, nobody ever watches anything. Whatever, I get to feel like I'm a nice person this way, and there's no bandwidth impact  More than a few of them, we added so they could watch our extensive collection of Irish Dance Performance DVD rips. We were the first house on our block to not have a DVD player, and people thought I was weird for ripping everything to mkv/mp4 at the time. Now they're all clamoring for it
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cruft posted:Now they're all Riverdancing for it
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EL BROMANCE posted:13 active of 25 in the last week. Almost exactly the same here, 12 of 25 in the past week. Those that use it tend to use it fairly heavily though, 10+ hours a week.
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